Lulas, Willesden Green, NW10

Visited 31/03/25 No cask again. Keg offering of Coors, original SB, Carling, Fosters, Guinness, Carlsberg and John Smiths. This sounds like it is a tapas bar, but again it is a very typical Irish bar. Indeed, screens here, as well as showing evening racing, had RTE News on with full sound. The bar counter, a solid wood affair, is against the left-hand wall towards the back part of the small rectangle off the main road. The front is glass plated, this time with Venetian blinds, and the venue is carpeted with a small hardwood skirt around the curved bar counter. The gents here were a largely sitting on tall, backed stools at the bar counter. The rest of the seating was via green fabric banquettes around the perimeter with small round tables and small stools with matching fabric seat pads. Indeed, this place was pretty colour coordinated and a very pleasant venue for this part of the world (ie you accept no cask beer).

This is a real Irish bar, like so many in this part of the world. There were lots of Irish accents in here, plus of course the horse racing being shown on all the TV screens. There were also some shamrocks, and Gaelic script around the place, as well as Celtic football club photographs and memorabilia and photographs of Rory McIlroy in action on the walls. It's carpeted, and furnished with some banquettes and normal tables and chairs. It was nice and warm in here on a cold winter's day. It's all very uncomplicated, which is a good thing obviously. I've yet to visit an irish bar that did real ale (as far as I can recall) and this one is no different in that respect. My pint of Guinness was a very reasonable £3.40. There was a good number of punters in during my midweek mid-afternoon visit, so it's cleary a going concern. This one is fine if you like these unsophisticated bars, and aren't fussy about the availability of real ale.